Episode 159- Taking Inventory of Your Inventory

Sorry about Ian’s voice, he’s been sick.

We talk Who. Doctor, not the band.

John Hurt as the Doctor?!

Hooray for bad segues.

What’s in your walle… er, backpack.

MacGuyver, nuff said.

Brian wins with “iconized”.

Ready up before a scene or fight.

Use everything.

Ian learned a lot from being a scout.

The Princess Bride by William Goldman.

Your Hosts:

Ian
(the) Brian

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Episode 158 – Xbox One

Stop! Twinkie time.

“The Cabin in the Woods” is either the dumbest movie ever, or so meta that Thom can’t wrap his head around it.

“The Incredible Hulk Returns” (aka Hulk Vs. Thor) is on Hulu. It’s so bad, it’s good!

Amber fail.

Concerns (or pimping) the Xbox One.

Used games, and piracy.

Hosts:
(the) Brian
Ian
Thom

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Episode 157 – Hemlock Grove

Doctor Who Season 7 starts with a bang. (Thom is way behind.)

Brian invents “timewashing”.

Ian and Brian make fun of Thom’s morbid obesity.

Topic fail: one host has watched the whole season, one host has watched two episodes, and one host hasn’t watched any.

All that rampant gypsy bigotry in the US is very sad…

Because, you know, werewolves.

Pacing is slow.

Netflix as content producers instead of just distributors.

Hosts:
(the) Brian
Ian
Thom

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Episode 156 – Of Locke & Key

We talk about Locke & Key, written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez.

Sam Lesser is one creepy bastard, who reminds Thom of a childhood friend.

Writing people with an opposite sexual preference.

Kevin Pollak’s eye lasers!

Souls and ghosts.

Like beer, the universe is only borrowed.

What is the Keyhouse?

We always come back to poo.

The right art for the story.

Hosts:
(the) Brian
Ian
Thom

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Episode 155 – Young Adult Books and Bad Heroes

Ian needs to get into voice work.

the Brian’s been rocking Borderlands 1 on the PC.

NWN Online gets a hearty “meh”.

Ian’s Presidential run, and The White (Tree) House.

We argue about Young Adult books, mostly Harry Potter.

Trippin’ over Red Slippers.

When heroes are bad people.

Ian proves Jar Jar is R2D2, and then we prove that Luke was inconsequential.

Fun with creationism.

Riddick and skinheads.

Where’s your Lobo rant, Patton?

Hosts:
(the) Brian
Ian
Thom

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Episode 154 – Character Gets in the Way

LA Noire gripes and Hemlock Grove pimping.

Continuum on Netflix.

Skydrive? Yup, trying it this weekend on Ian’s advice.

MWP losing the Marvel license (we were out two weeks, sue us), and what to do with it.

Adapting setting flavor without the intellectual property.

Lords of Gossamer and Shadow on Kickstarter.

Art evoking feel, and some past favorites.

Fun with homelessness.

Character driven versus action driven.

Too much player info.

Flapless footy pajamas.

Hosts:
(the) Brian
Ian
Thom

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Update: iTunes is back up!

Despite stumbling around the RSS stuff like blind men, we’ve got the feed running again. At least to iTunes.

The episode on the 13th (Episode 154) is a definite GO!

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An explanation, and an apology.

We’re taking a well-deserved skip week this week, since Thom broke our RSS feed.

Unfortunately, we upgraded a few things on our end, and it caused a feed problem to RPGPodcasts.com and SpookyOuthouse.com, who (apart from iTunes) are a large part of our audience. Seeing that our numbers had gone down a bit, Thom attempted to fix things.

And then things got even more brokerer.

While the feed is technically working, we’re still not feeding outside our own site. We’re working on fixing it, and we’ve taken this week off to rest up while we wait.

See you all again on May 13th!

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Episode 153 – Weedy Wonka and the Heartis of the Tardis

The Heartis of the Tardis

LA Noire

Flesh glaives- not a typo.

Henry 8.0 is Brian Blessed at his comedic best!

Batman and DC talk

Thom is spoiled by Evil Hat on Kickstarter, and grouchy at Numenera

Mic requests that will not happen

Greyhawk versus Forgotten Realms

Jackie Chan!

Weedy Wonka and we’re out.

Hosts:
Ian
(the) Brian
Thom

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Episode 152 – Fate corrections, Cyberpunk and Defiance

Doctor Who

Billy West & John DiMaggio

Silver Surfer is emo

Table Top: Dragon Age

Did Thom get schooled? Yes. Yes he did.

Using an RPG system in a video game

Cyberpunk 2077 and Interlock Unlimited

We talk a bit about Defiance

Cross pollination between games and TV/movies is the next step in the evolution of entertainment

Hosts:

(the) Brian
Ian
Thom

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